Questions About Making Salsa in the Mp

[NewtoMom]

Ok. This is probably a stupid question. But making salsa in the manual processor according to the recipe, are you finding that the bowl is too small? By the time I'm ready to add the last of my cherry tomatoes, there is barely any room for it to chop. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. It's not like this recipe is rocket science.

 

[NooraK]

Are you adding all the ingredients and then starting, or adding the first, chopping, adding more, chopping, etc.? I do find that it gets full fast, but I also start with the densest ingredients (onions) chop those first, then add tomatoes, chop some more, and so forth.

 

[wadesgirl]

I find that it's best to do the last bit of tomatoes by themselves. I'll dumped out the first round into the serving bowl and then process the rest.

 

[NewtoMom]

Thanks
I think I'm adding onions and jalepeno, chop, then add the cilantro, garlic and lemon juice, chop then adding 1/2 tomatoes, chop and then it's really to full to actually chop the rest of the tomatoes. I did dump and then chop the rest. I'm making for a show this Friday and I don't want to fumble. So maybe I'll chop everything except for the tomatoes together, dump and then chop tomatoes.

 

[wadesgirl]

Thanks
I think I'm adding onions and jalepeno, chop, then add the cilantro, garlic and lemon juice, chop then adding 1/2 tomatoes, chop and then it's really to full to actually chop the rest of the tomatoes. I did dump and then chop the rest. I'm making for a show this Friday and I don't want to fumble. So maybe I'll chop everything except for the tomatoes together, dump and then chop tomatoes.

I do the jalepeno, garlic and cilantro together to make it really fine then throw the onion in. You could probably throw the onion in to start but I like slightly bigger chunks of onion in mine. Then half the tomatoes, dump out the whole thing and process the rest of the tomatoes.

 

[tiggerhale]

I process it in small portions, dump in between and then stir when I'm all done.

 

[esavvymom]

I usually do the peppers, onions, cilantro in one step. Dump in a small batter bowl. Do the tomatoes, add the lime juice, salt, etc. combine in the bowl with the pepper mix. Otherwise, it just gets too bogged down.

 

[NewtoMom]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm def going to split it up. I don't want to be fumbling around when trying to sell it...lol.